Metal tip foe toes of boots and shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. MITCHELL, OF TURNER, MAINE.

METAL TIP FOR TOES OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 19,040, dated January 51, 1858i; Ressued December To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MITCHELL, of Turner, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented a useful Article of Manufacture, viz., an Improved Boot or Shoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in providing the toes of childrens, boys, and mens boots and shoes with a covering of plate made of silver or any other compo sit-ion.

To enable others skilled in the art to makeJ and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct my shoe or boot in any of the known forms and apply to the toes a covering of thin plate of sufficient thickness to prevent being jammed from ordinary blows or hits. I use in general plate made of silver or copper coated with silver or copper alone or iron plate japanned outside and inside, so as to prevent the plate from rubbing and wearing the leather or brass, German silver, zinc or Brittannia or any other metal or composition ductile and susceptible of being set with the die so as to conform to the toe of the shoe or boot the plate when cut or set being either hot or cold.

In order to apply the plate to the toe of the shoe or boot I first cut the plate with a die in the form desired as seen in the accompanying drawings at, A. I then place the plate as cut upon a cast iron block with a cavity molded to suit the form of the toe of the shoe or boot and set the plate with a die to the form desired. I place the plat-e when set upon the toe of the shoe or boot after the shoe or boot is lasted and before the outer sole is put on so that when the outer sole is pegged down the pegs or nails around the toe are driven through the plate so as tio confine the plate to the shoe. The plate as applied to the shoe may be seen in the accompanying drawings. B represents the plate when set.

I am aware that in Geo. S. McVValters rejected application for a patent, (1847,) it was proposed to cover the ends of shoe lasts with metallic tips; and therefore I disclaim the application of such tips to lasts. I am also aware that in the London Journal of Arts and Sciences, volume 7, conjoined series, may be found a description of a method of preventing the under sides of the toes and heels of boots and shoes from wearing, by attaching metallic plates thereto. This plan consists in applying metal plates, something after the form of horseshoes, to t-he bottoms of boots and shoes. It is a method which has been commonly known for many years, and I disclaim it. It bears no resemblance to my invention, since it offers no protection whatever to the upper leather of the boot or shoe. The function performed by my tip is manifestly quite different from that of the device above alluded to.

Having described my invention I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, as a new article of manufacture,

A boot or shoe, the toe part of which is provided with-a metallic tip A, substantially as described.

MANDEVILLE Y. SUDDEN, B. F. TEAGUE.

[FIRST PRINTED 1911.] 

